Hi! On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 7:29 PM, Sam Gleske <sam.mxra...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello gimp-dev and community, > I'd like to apologize for my remarks. I think my pride got in the way a bit > and I definitely misunderstood the intent of the thread. Hopefully, my > reaction does not turn of RedHat for wanting to contribute. I will take > this as an opportunity to reflect on my actions and work to continue to > improve myself. I definitely want to be seen as a healthy part of this > community and I really do appreciate and love what the GIMP dev team does. > > If anybody is interested in joining me as an admin for maintaining the GIMP > CI server I encourage anybody to reach out to me regardless of your skill > level. Even if you're new to Linux and wish to get better at Linux (zero > experience) I'm willing to provide you training and act as a senior for > advice in Linux system administration. > > I'll try to keep conversation more productive than my first reply to this > thread. I just wanted to publicly announce my apology since I started this > mess publicly.
Hey, no problem. We all have our days of tiredness and misunderstandings. :-) Happy to read you don't leave us just now (and that maybe we'll get more admins soon). ;-) Jehan > Thanks, > SAM > > On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 7:08 AM, Jehan Pagès <jehan.marmott...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> >> Hello Sam, >> >> On Thu, Oct 5, 2017 at 9:15 AM, Sam Gleske <sam.mxra...@gmail.com> wrote: >> > >> > >> > On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 6:03 AM, Jehan Pagès >> > <jehan.marmott...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 10, 2017 at 10:20 AM, gregory grey <ror...@gmail.com> >> >> wrote: >> >> > I know about build.gimp.org. >> >> > >> >> > I just wanted to raise this question to the attention of the team - >> >> > of >> >> > whether there is a need to support own CI if security is not an >> >> > issue.It is literally only reason people do that now when we have >> >> > travis-ci.org/https://circleci.com/etc.Travis is even free for >> >> > opensource projects. >> >> > >> >> > https://build.gimp.org/plugin/disk-usage/ looks pretty full to me, >> >> > for >> >> > example. External CI do not have problems with that. >> >> >> >> We know of the disk usage issue: >> >> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=776631 >> >> That's one of the many issues which triggered us into either looking >> >> for alternative solutions or collaboration or whatever you want. >> >> Basically we want something which works, is useful and reliable. The >> >> "need" stops there. >> >> >> >> After, which software is it using? I think we don't really care. Now >> >> obviously we'd prefer our whole infrastructure to run on Free >> >> Software. And personally I like self-hosting for full control. But >> >> then there is reality check: it requires contributor time and >> >> administration skills. So in the end, the CI contributor(s) choose. In >> >> the GIMP team, our policy is more or less that the one who *do* are >> >> the one who are in charge of what they do. >> >> >> >> Jehan >> > >> > >> > Since I don't appear to be seen as a contributor or "doer" I'm happy to >> > just >> > step down completely and remove myself from the project. Much as I like >> > GIMP I don't really like the tone of the thread. >> >> I don't really understand what triggers this sudden anger but I see >> you are quoting one of my last emails. And if that is your trigger, >> then you got the opposite of its meaning since what it meant is that >> *you* were the one in charge since *you* are the one who does right >> now! So whoever who wants something different has to go through you >> first then help you make things happen. >> >> You are considered a contributor and a doer. That's even what I said >> in my first email (if you haven't, please read it: >> >> https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list/2016-September/msg00018.html), >> which was the most important, answering Vladimir and telling him to >> get in touch with you because you are the one making things happen >> right now. That's pretty much the definition of both a contributor of >> the project and a doer. >> >> Now if the problem is that we are welcoming additional administrators >> who want to help (especially if they could be backed by a big company >> like RedHat), I don't understand. Having additional administrators >> won't mean at all that we reject you or anything, quite the contrary >> (cf. again my first email). But if you absolutely want to be alone to >> administrate (and if that were your issue here), then yes it is a >> problem. You don't have all the time of the world to maintain >> perfectly the server (which is no big deal at all! You also have a >> life and do this voluntarily. We thank you for this), but several >> admins together could. Same as we are several developers (fortunately >> since none of us could maintain GIMP as well as now if we were alone). >> >> Our problem was clear: we have only 1 maintainer for continuous >> integration and you don't have unlimited time. So having a second >> person to help could be a good idea. Now if you really leave, we have >> 0 admins, and even if someone else stepped us, we'd be back at square >> 1. >> So this is it. I really want to make things clear because it seems you >> have been completely misinterpreting this 1-year old thread. Anyway >> you are free to choose and we still thank you for all what you have >> done until now. But just consider things with their proper meaning. >> :-) >> >> Jehan >> >> -- >> ZeMarmot open animation film >> http://film.zemarmot.net >> Patreon: https://patreon.com/zemarmot >> Tipeee: https://www.tipeee.com/zemarmot > > -- ZeMarmot open animation film http://film.zemarmot.net Patreon: https://patreon.com/zemarmot Tipeee: https://www.tipeee.com/zemarmot _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@gnome.org List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
